Synonyms of rackets

rackets 1 of 2

noun

plural of racket

as in noises

loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound

if all the racket on the stairs is any indication, someone must be moving into apartment 3B

Synonyms & Similar Words

• noises
• rattles
• roars
• chatters
• commotions
• cacophonies
• brawls
• decibels
• discordances
• dins
• clatters
• bowwows
• bruits
• bluster
• blares
• clamors
• discords
• bangs
• clangors
• babels
• dissonances
• booms
• katzenjammers
• tumults
• furors
• jangles
• rumpuses
• hurly-burlies
• hullabaloos
• blasts
• uproars
• crashes
• claps
• hubbubs
• cracks

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• silences
• stills
• quiets
• lulls
• hushes
• calms
• serenities
• tranquilities
• quietudes

rackets

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of racket

as in chinks

Related Words

• chinks
• clanks
• clinks
• clacks
• clicks
• chirps
• clashes
• rattles
• clatters
• clangs
• clops
• crashes
• clip-clops
• spatters
• clop-clops
• sputters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rackets

Noun

Manzo was an outspoken critic of cartel involvement in extortion and other rackets. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026

The allegation was just part of a drumbeat of US criticism over the cartels’ political protection rackets. — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 25 July 2026

This system means players adjust their tactics (and often their string tensions on their rackets) through each stretch. — James Hansen, New York Times, 20 July 2026

Gang bosses had enjoyed surreal luxuries inside — a zoo, a discotheque, a cockfight arena — while directing rackets that had spread across the hemisphere as Tren de Aragua took control of smuggling routes and victimized Venezuelan immigrants. — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 10 July 2026

When wooden tennis rackets were replaced by titanium models and when steel poles were replaced with fiberglass ones in pole vaulting, the level of performance in each of those sports soared to new levels. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 June 2026

Dancers in tennis skirts twirled around with rackets while breaking to move plants and shovel dirt. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2026

One of the roots of the Sicilian mafia was the private protection rackets that formed in the mining regions. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 15 June 2026

Pol learns the ropes alongside fellow stripper Noel (Daniel Fernando) and savvy prostitute Bambi (Jaclyn Jose), discovering an underbelly of protection rackets, human trafficking and rampant political corruption. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 June 2026